Sycamore with fruit buds

Walking south on the Appalachian Trail, we found a small grove of sycamore trees right on the bank of the Housatonic River. These types of trees like wet environments.

I noticed some small, round balls hanging off the branches which I’d never noticed before. Wikipedia says American sycamores have winter “fruit” buds so I’m guessing that’s what these are.

I got right under a branch and shot straight up at the cloudy sky. I must say, the Ricoh GR’s high contrast black and white JPEG was so interesting I decided to post it instead of the processed RAW. The natural vignette in the sky and the grain and fruit buds all work well together.

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I’ve been publishing online in one form or another since the early days of the web. I started this site in 2003 with a self-hosted install of WordPress and more recently migrated most of the old content here.

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